The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-04-14
Mr.. ana Mrs. Bowser.

public gaze. He came in frora the barn
the other day in a great hurry and call
ed out:
Mrs. Bowser, where's the screw
driver? Hurry. now. for 1 wanti it right
awayr'
Why. | don't know where it is. l
dokt have charge Of your tools"
Look here! ! left that screwdriyer
on this window sill in the sitting-room
yesterday afternoon"
"Well, / haven't seen it."
who has? It's probably been tucked
into the stove or given away to some
Polack. IT. a wonder the piano doesn't
turn up missing some morning. If it's
got SO / can't leave a tool around the
house without its being destroyed, /
want TO know it."
was looking around while he stood
in the middle Of tn room talking, and
presently | found a gimlet bored into
the wall where he had intended to put
up a bracket. and said:
There's the gimlet. and you'll be
ask ne for that next"
Mrs. Browser, when | asked Won
where the gimlet was, why didn't you
tell me?r
"You didn't ask"
'What! What brought me in from
the barn?''
lyon came after the ~screwdriver."
"Neyer! | came right in here and
asked for the gimlet, and You know it,
Do you suppose I'd try to bore Il hole
with 2 screwdriver?'
I'm sure you said screwdriver."
Il know I said gimletr'
He was mad about it all the after
noon, and that evening, as we got set
tied down after supper, he suddenly
observed:
IF you'll hunt up those rivets I'll
fix that picture frame"
Did you have some rivets around
here?
"Did l? Didn't l bring a pape of
EN- home three or four DAYS agol
They've probably gone into the stove
or into the cart of some peddler."
MIR. Bowser. I'll take my oath there
hasn't been a rivet in this house since
we moved in. What could we use
rivets for?"
do you remember the night l
brought home that bottle of wine?
Didn't l take 4 small package out of
my pocket and put it on that table, and
didn't | afterwards get the tack-ham-
mer and put a strip on the Kitchen
Window"
'Oh-yes."
'TOh. you remember. do your
But you didn't have rivets in that
package-they were inch brads, and
they are right in the stand drawer. Why
didn't you say brads. Sir. Bowserf"
Who said rivets?"
why. you did"
Don't you suppose 1 know the diff
ference between rivets and brads?"
Certainly"
met! When l asked you for the brads
didn't mean rivets. Ifsyou don't
know which from which you'd better
learn"
Mr. Bowser was using his tape-line
in the garnet the other day, and when
/ went up and found it strung about |
reeled it up and laid it on a window
sill. About 10 O'Clock the next fore
noon he came rushing in with the ex-
elamatiOn:
Nice neighborhood, this isl You
are bound and determined to locate up
here. and new you must take the con-
s~eguencesr'
What is 1T, MIR. Bowser?"
Il left my tape-line on that saw
horse yesterday, and some human tiend
slid in last night and stole it 1t was
by your advice that | came up here and
invested SIC. 900 in 4 house, and this is
the resIltt'
Weren't you using the tapeline in
the house Yesterday"
No. ma a
Didn't you leave it up in the gar
rets"
"DO you think I've suddenly lost nv
memory, Mrs. Bowser. you talk to
me as If | was a half-idIotr1
L went up and got the tape-line and
Jr0aght 1t down TO him. He was caught,
out what did he do but assume an air
Of awful dignity and say:
Mrs. BOwser. don't you never dare
% play any such trick on me again, A
Joke is a joke. but when you sneak into
he yard and carry my tape-line up into
the garrett it is going altogether toe
5arr'
L suppose there are men who keep
some track of their hats, gloves, rub
GERS. ETC.. when at home. but Mr.. Bow
ser isn't of that kind. Each morning
after breakfast am prepared for the
exclamation:
There Some of you have been
fooling with my hatt'
isn't il on the ~kall-tree?"
.If II Was would | stand here asking
for it? / don't think I've gone blind
yet"
Didn't you leave it in the sitting
room2''
.-Of course l didn't 1 hung it I'D
here as 1 came home, and some of YOU
have probably been using it to store
potatoes in"
The hat is found on q chair in the sit
ting-roOm, just where he had placed it,
and after more grumbling he zoe into
the hall for his rubbers and shouts
back: